Smyrna times., 1887-08-10
SmYrna and Vicinity.

ice cream. 1t is very fine.
ISAAC TRUAx has SOLD his peach
crop to Hill & rruax, of Philadelphia.
\ FORCE Of workmen are now clear
ing UP and putting the streets in good
order.
WATERNiELoNs and cantaloupes of
home production are coming to market
slowly.
JOHN SENEY has opened little store
near Jimmy McCluskey's, with an ice
cream saloon above.
If we could have few degrees of
hot weather about next January what
blessing it would be.
The attention to shippers by the
Iyger is called to their schedule time
for August and September
JOSEPH WRIGHT, the contractor for
the enlargement of the Town Hall has
commenced the work with vigor.
AN exchange says: During the hot
weather do not pat strange dogs onthe
head; hire somebody else to do it.
WHILE the summer girl is breasting
the wave at the seaside, her good old
mother stays at home and stems the
current.
TIE abundance Of rain in July set a
growth Of crab grass in the yards and
lawns to the deuiment of the other
wise perennial glass.
The telegraph reported frost in
northern New York on Monday morn.
ing. As a change this was a little too
much of a good thing.
OUR gardeners never had better
weather for starting celery plants,
whatever may be the outcome of the
crop later in the season.
THE members of Mount Friendship
church near Kenton will celebrate the
Proclamation of Emancipation in a
jOlliicatiOn in Mudges woods on Sat
urday.
SEVERAL of our citizens joined the
railroad excursion TO RehOboth this
morning. Others got left because of
the indefniteness Of the movements of
the branch train
THANKS to Detective Hutchins of
Dover who cleans the tramps up on
the line of the railroad, our housewives
have been very little troubled by them
this year, so far.
A CHOICE watermelon presented by
Hubert Wood to our typos was enioyed
by them immensely last evening. They
will bet for Hubert for good melons
all the time hereafter.
PETER S. COLLINS has a sun flower
stalk in his garden which has climbed
up to the altitude of fifteen feet. 1t
has prOnged off into branches bearing
a number Of sun flowers.
WITH the bracing atmosphere of
Monday morning, every business man
entered on his work with renewed
nerve, energy and hope, in strong CON
trast with the preceding weeks.
A CONTEMPORARY wants our crack
marksmen to substitute dogs for tar
gets instead of pigeons or clay balls. A
good idea, but the suggestion would
have more force after the cunning sea-
son.
SALEM NJ. P. SUNDAY SCHOOL will
picnic in the woods at Thomas Corner
on Saturday afternoon. The CLAYTON
festival for the benefit of the parsonage
will come of tomorrow and Friday
evenings.
THE pastor of Bethel A. NJ. Z.
church Is preparing for a church camp
the first and second Sunday in Sep
tember. a similar meeting will be
held at the Centennial Church, COM
mencing on the 9th inst.
THE singing birds have closed their
note books until the advent Of the next
vernal season, the robin coming in last.
ccasing his song as he always does
the first week in August The chirD
ofthe English Sparrow is ever abiding.
THE determination of the New York
and Boston dealers TO return no emp
ties ought to inure to the benefit of the
basket manufacturers. II. r. Mustard
d Co., in their large advertisement.
have been holding out inducements to
growers in need Of baskets, for several
weeks. If not before, the time has
now come to buy.
THE Wilmington Commercial Col.
lage, whose advertisement appears in
another column, is a first class institu-
ton, and young people Of either sex
desiring a thorough. practical and
business education will make no mis-
take in taking a course at this college.
Before deciding on q school send for a
catalogue.
THE farmer who does not like the
trouble, labor and expense in stacking
his wheat, will possibly take the risk
again, though his wheat did sprout in
the shock. because the weather has
been exceptional, such as occurs but
once or twice ~ "a life time. The land
lords who have been equal sharers in
the loss may and can put their tenants
ON theisafe side by stipnlating that if
not threshed in so many days from tie
time Of cutting, that if not stacked the
tenant shall bear the loss.
THE Record in discussing the inef-
6cient help the housewives sometimes
have and the high price they often
have to pay for it.says, "a customs pre-
walls among help apprOpriating Sunday
eatables, dfinkables and wearables to
their own use, for which purpose lit
basket makes frequent and nnsuspi.
cious trips" This little basket or bum
die under the shawl has been a com
plant Of the generations, that seems to
be coeval with humanity TO the con-
iding and careless il has often been
worse than the spoils Of the night burg
lar,
a NEWSPAPER may die Of its own
excellency. The great multitude Of
readers do not want a journal that is
too good. They go to church for moni-
ton. They take the papers 70 see how
the world wags, not bow it ought to
wag. As a merchant does got keep
the stuGs that are best, but the stufs
that are most salabIe, 50 the journalist
must cater TO his pubije The Boston
Sundqy Record an excellent newspaper,
/ has inst been discontinued for the rea-
son that IL furnished better Sunday
reading than the Boston poblio could
] tand.